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Originally Posted by Hitch
But on a super-large scale, like one of the big houses (say Random House), I can't imagine how they'd proof all those titles. I really don't. It's easy to say "oh, they're lazy," but putting out really good ebooks isn't significantly easier than putting out a good print title; and proofing one doesn't replace proofing the other--and as someone else pointed out, a good proofing can run $750-$3500 or more.
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For a new book, what are they using as the source? If they have a good document to work from that's not PDF, and that document is updated for any changes since the book was submitted electronically then there should be little room for these sorts of WTF errors. If the process is streamlined so it works with say a Word document, then there should be little need to have to read the eBook other then to check formatting. But what they do boggles the rational mind. I can take a Word document and convert it to ePub without worrying about inserting errors not already in the document. The only thing that would need to be done is to fix the formatting and the internal code.
How do we get things like missing spaces, missing letters, missing word, run on formatting, sections out of place, and other oddities in new eBooks that should not have to be run through the OCR process?